Sorry for the short length but I just didn't know how to continue it after I left off.
Venom Snake looked out of the window, or as much as his armoured Rad suit would allow. Pequad was taking to Moscow Russia to find out what had happened to the world. He wasn't expecting anything but even in war expecting the unexpected was what soldiers did. He would be alone for this mission as D-dog had no rad protection the same with D-horse but the area was likely going to be little more then rubble so that ruled out D walker until a few upgrades could be made.
The SGV 76 rifle in his hands was cocked and ready for action. While he used just about every weapon known to the militaries of the world he did have his preferences. Back before any of this happened he used this weapon whenever he was up against the soviets, that way he wouldn't need too much support from the Support team. This time, until modifications could be added to the support craft he needed it more then ever.
Pequad soon landed and Venom exited the helo looking around with his weapon up.
"Clear, ok Pequad get back to the ship. Stand by for my call." he said.
"Yes sir." Pequad said before talking off.
Snake looked around, Moscow was gone. The once bustling city of the Soviet union was now dead and gone, lost to the pages of time. The quiet of the city was unnerving as he walked. As he did he could imagine the parades that took place, before he joined the bass he took part in those parades celebrating the soviet union and communism but no more now. He sighed as he moved down the street as memories began to come back.
OOOOO
Alpha squad was made up of at least 5 people, one team leader, one marksmen, one gunner, one grenadier and one radiologist. This formation was used with all other groups that were sent into the wastelands but some of them had STOUT IFV-SC that had been radiation hardened. But they were not so lucky, their objective was the Pentagon and a small group would be required to get in and out fast. Each of them were American and from Washington, that's why they were chosen for the mission. Because they knew the city like the back of their hands.
Each of them where also armed with an American m16 colt, this was mostly due to the fact that if they ran out, ammo would not be hard to find. This was something that the Boss essentially ordered for all of the mother base soldiers and it helped out more then once. The group approached the US military building and walked in. They didn't have their weapons up as they saw no need to, the place was dead they were only carrying them for emergencies.
They split up and two of them went to missile command while the other three went to the main server room. Amata 'Blue Hawk' Almodovar was the missile expert as well as the team leader. She lead her life long friend Sarah 'Steel Lion' Lyons walked into missile command and looked around. The sight of bones fused with clothing nearly made the two sick but they kept their lunch in and moved to the consoles.
"So what are we looking for?" Sarah asked.
"Anything to show who authorised the nukes. If command is to be believed then the boss is somehow behind this." Amata said. "We need to find out who did this." she muttered as the two looked from computer to computer trying to see which ones were working.
While Snake and Ocelot had talked in private about the possibility that this was all the Boss' doing the thought did not escape the other members of Diamond dogs. Because rumour was so hard to fight the Snake just let it go. There was little point in trying to stop word from getting around a fact he learned in the Soviet army despite it's authoritarian style. People talked regardless of rank or culture and unless it was about rebellion it was best left alone.
After a good few moments they found a working terminal. Amata tuned it on and began to read though it. It was corrupted for the most part, but that was understandable but some of it was readable, but it was still making no sense. Taking out her Idroid she took a cable and plugged it in. the device activated and downloaded what there was. It only took a few seconds until it was done.
"Command, Star one, got a working terminal here sending what I have." she said as she pulled the plug and pressed send.
"Star one, copy we have the files. Most seem to be corrupted can you confirm?" the Intel officer said on the other end.
"Yes I can confirm but this is all I could find."
"Understood." the officer said before a loud bang made the two get down. "Star one what was that?"
"Requesting radio silence." Amata whispered.
Sarah walked up to a window and looked out of it. Something moved in the streets, setting up her rifle she looked down the scope at the movement while switching from auto to single. It moved again and what she saw disgusted her, a human was walking around with skin falling off and clothing fused to their skin. Aiming for the head she then fired, the round hit the person in the head who fell down dead. That turned out to be a big mistake as several more people came over to the body all with the same skin falling off their bodies.
"Shit." she muttered turning to her friend. "We got more of them now."
"Damn it," Amata said as she hit her radio. "Star one to Blackjack, need pickup on the roof of the pentagon."
"Blackjack here on the way."
"Squad meet up on the roof, be warned about unknown hostiles."
OOOOO
The ride back to the cargo freighter, Lucy's call, was thankfully short but the decontamination was long and pissed both the team and crew off. But in the end it was worth it as they managed to get intel about what happened and the unknown hostiles they faced in Washington.
"Unfortunately we couldn't get one of their bodies to look at." Amata said as she stood in front of the Diamond dogs overseer. "But hopefully the intel we got from the terminal and server farm helped.
The look on the overseers face said otherwise. "As much as I hate to say it but both reviled little intel about what happened but we did find this." he pushed a report to her, she picked it up and read.
"The terminal Star one found was corrupted by a high margin due to the initial blast. Most of the information retrieved was unreadable except for a few records. One was of particular interest as it showed the launch time of the missiles. Launch time was 1329 est." she looked to the overseer. "Forgive me sir but we knew about this part."
"Indeed we did but Venom Snake found something similar at Moscow. The time of the launch was 2029, if we remove the seven hour difference both launches happened at the same time."
Her eyes widened. "But that means that someone from the US and Moscow launched the nukes at the same time."
"Exactly and from the pieces we could find, the US and Moscow didn't even know about it. Whoever did this, it wasn't on orders from either the US or USSR."
OOOOO
Quiet could only watch as people walked in and out of her room coming to check on her. At least she wasn't dead yet, she had so many Questions to ask. One of them being who was that young man claiming to be the boss. She had plenty of time to think lying in bed, at least she wasn't alone. The young man walked in and sat next to her before taking a hold of her hand. Now she got a good look at him. He was around her age, and wasn't that unattractive. He did however have a scar running down his left eye which itself was a milky white. Other then that there was few defining features about him. Little to no hair and fairly tanned skin.
"Hey," he spoke with a softness to his voice. "I heard form the doctors that you'll be up and out soon, I could use you back in the field. We have got some serious problems and we need all the hands we can get. But I wanted to tell you this personally but I didn't have time ans we didn't know if it could work. Code talker managed to find something that targets the Vocal cord parasite's DNA at it's most basic level and well eats it. It works, we've tried it on a few of the staff and they no longer have the parasite or the Wolbachia in them any more."
Quiet tried to reach over to him and touch his face but her strength had not returned. He held her down with a soft smile on his face.
"Don't worry we're going to give everyone infected with the treatment. That includes you." he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek again before leaving.
This shade of red her face wanted to produce would have melted anything. She was glad to be back.